In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language

A corpus-driven approach

Editors

Shlomo Izre’el

Heliana Mello

Alessandro Panunzi

Tommaso Raso

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What is the best way to analyze spontaneous spoken language? In their search for the basic units of spoken language the authors of this volume opt for a corpus-driven approach. They share a strong conviction that prosodic structure is essential for the study of spoken discourse and each bring their own theoretical and practical experience to the table. In the first part of the book they segment spoken material from a range of different languages (Russian, Hebrew, Central Pomo (an indigenous language from California), French, Japanese, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese). In the second part of the book each author analyzes the same two spoken English samples, but looking at them from different perspectives, using different methods of analysis as reflected in their respective analyses in Part I. This approach allows for common tendencies of segmentation to emerge, both prosodic and segmental.

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 94] 2020. xi, 440 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 29 May 2020

https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.94

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments | pp. xi–xii

Introduction. In search of a basic unit of spoken language: Segmenting speech

Shlomo Izre’el, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso | pp. 1–32

Part I

Chapter 1. Russian spoken discourse: Local structure and prosody

Andrej A. Kibrik, Nikolay A. Korotaev and Vera I. Podlesskaya | pp. 35–76

Chapter 2. The basic unit of spoken language and the interfaces between prosody, discourse and syntax: A View from spontaneous spoken Hebrew

Shlomo Izre’el | pp. 77–106

Chapter 3. Prosody and the organization of information in Central Pomo, a California indigenous language

Marianne Mithun | pp. 107–126

Chapter 4. Syntactic and prosodic segmentation in spoken French

Jeanne-Marie Debaisieux and Philippe Martin | pp. 127–154

Chapter 5. Design and annotation of two-level utterance units in Japanese

Takehiko Maruyama, Yasuharu Den and Hanae Koiso | pp. 155–180

Chapter 6. The pragmatic analysis of speech and its illocutionary classification according to the Language into Act Theory

Emanuela Cresti | pp. 181–220

Chapter 7. Illocution as a unit of reference for spontaneous speech: An account of insubordinated adverbial clauses in Brazilian Portuguese

Giulia Bossaglia, Heliana Mello and Tommaso Raso | pp. 221–256

Chapter 8. Narrative discourse segmentation in clinical linguistics

Mira B. Bergelson and Mariya V. Khudyakova | pp. 257–284

Chapter 9. Cross-linguistic comparison of automatic detection of speech breaks in read and narrated speech in four languages

Plínio A. Barbosa | pp. 285–300

Part II

Same texts, different approaches to segmentation: An introduction to the second part of the volume

Shlomo Izre’el, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso | pp. 303–308

Chapter 1. Segmentation and analysis of the two English excerpts: The Brazilian team proposal

Tommaso Raso, Plínio A. Barbosa, Frederico A. Cavalcante and Maryualê M. Mittmann | pp. 309–326

Chapter 2. Analysis of two English spontaneous speech examples with the dependency incremental prosodic structure model

Philippe Martin | pp. 327–336

Chapter 3. Applying criteria of spontaneous Hebrew speech segmentation to English

Shlomo Izre’el | pp. 337–348

Chapter 4. Basic units of speech segmentation

Marianne Mithun | pp. 349–358

Chapter 5. Segmentation of the English texts Navy and Hearts with SUU and LUU

Takehiko Maruyama | pp. 359–366

Chapter 6. The Moscow approach to local discourse structure: An application to English

Andrej A. Kibrik, Nikolay A. Korotaev and Vera I. Podlesskaya | pp. 367–382

Chapter 7. Some notes on the Hearts and Navy excerpts according to the Language into Act Theory

Emanuela Cresti and Massimo Moneglia | pp. 383–402

Chapter 8. Comparing annotations for the prosodic segmentation of spontaneous speech: Focus on reference units

Alessandro Panunzi, Lorenzo Gregori and Bruno Rocha | pp. 403–432

Index | pp. 433–440

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